Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Customer Relationship
Management (CRM)
Session Presenters
Tim Sullivan
• Managing Consultant, ASPIRE - Total Customer Development
Consulting and Delivery Firm.
• CRM and Interactive Marketing Pioneer and Innovator with 15
Years of Experience.
• Board Member, Customer Relationship Management
Association – CRMA-Chicago.
Jim Hirsch
• Vice President and Executive Director, Chicago Theatre and
Chicago Association for the Performing Arts – CAPA.
Session Goals &
Agenda
1. Understand CRM, Components & Strategies
2. Understand CRM Best Practices, Value & ROI
3. Understand How Arts Groups Can Best Use CRM
• Arts Group CRM Success: A Customer and
Competitive Necessity (25 min)
• Permission-Based E-Mail Marketing: The
Future of Audience Development (25 min)
• Q&A (25 min)
Arts Group CRM Success:
A Customer and
Competitive Necessity
ASPIRE
Total Customer Development tm
Why CRM is a Customer
and Competitive Necessity
Customer Acquisition
• Gain the greatest number of new “Best” customers as early in their
“lifespan” as possible.
Customer Retention
• Retain and expand your business and relationships with your customers
through up-selling, cross-selling and servicing.
Customer Loyalty
• Offer programs to ensure that your customers happily buy what you offer
only from you.
Customer Evangelism
Enable loyal customers to become a volunteer sales force.
Cost Reduction
• Reduce costs related to marketing, sales, customer service and support.
Improve Productivity
Enhance your e-business strategies.
The “Customer”
Customer Segments
• Suspects, Visitors, Prospects, Subscribers, Patrons, Members,
Ticket Buyers, Users, Consumers, VIPs, Volunteers, Annual /
Major Donors, Advisors, Advocates, Legislators, Strategic
Partners, Sponsors …
• What data do really you have on your customers’ Problems, Pains,
Fears, Needs, Wants, Likes, Goals, Influences, Relationships,
Affiliations, Alliances, Experiences, Aspirations, Options,
Expectations, Questions, Knowledge, Skills, Activities, Attention,
Communications, Interactions, Emotions, Memories, Satisfaction,
Perceptions, Beliefs, Admirations, Attitudes, Opinions, Values,
Learning, Ideas, Motivations, Objections, Priorities, Choices,
Behaviors, Personality, Self-Concepts, Trust, Loyalty, Attention,
Recognition, Time, Energy, Risks, Investments, Rewards, ROI,
Lifestyle, Lifecycle Stage, Social Class, Culture, Sub-culture, Age,
Family, Education, Hobbies, Interests…?
CRM People
“Customers”
• Suspects, Visitors, Prospects, Subscribers, Patrons,
Members, Ticket Buyers, Users, Consumers, VIPs,
Volunteers, Annual / Major Donors, Advisors,
Advocates, Legislators, Strategic Partners, Sponsors …
Users
• Management, Employees, Visitors
Suppliers
• Services - Consultants
• CRM / Customer Development Experts
• Products - Technology
• Software, Hardware, Connectivity
CRM Processes / Mapping
E-Marketing Management
• E-mail Marketing: Alerts, E-Newsletter Management
• E-Surveying: Progressive Profiling Management
• Viral Marketing: Tell-a-Friend Management
• Web Design: Registration, Subscription, VIP Management
• Online Community / E-Suggestion Box / Blog Management
• E-Commerce: Memberships, Event Registration Management
• Affiliate Management: Sponsorship Management (Boston Symphony)
• Reporting / Analysis: Profiles, Behaviors…
CRM Technology /
Infrastructure
Operating Systems
• Windows 9x…, Mac, Unix, Linux, Browser
Point Solutions vs. Suite
• Homegrown, Packaged or Hosted
• Toolkit, Integrated Best of Breed or All-in-One
Application/Data Integration
• Accounting, Financial, Other Systems
IT / Consultant
• Support, Budget, Time
Why Arts Organizations
Must Adopt CRM
Relevancy
• I am not overloaded by irrelevant data.
Experiences
• I seek “Memorable and Remarkable Experiences” over Products.
Attention
• I am unwilling to waste attention. You must earn It.
Value
• I expect to receive 2-3x value in return for investing my attention.
Desire For Knowledge and Individuality
• I desire information that is valuable to me because it enables me to decide
what to do, and how best to do it.
Decoded Complexity
• I will turn to reliable sources of “evaluated” information and may find it
convenient to complete my purchase at the same time, and at the same point.
The “New Consumer” /
“Buyer-Centric” Market
Response Rates
• Well-executed event-driven marketing campaigns typically
deliver response rates of the order of 25% - 50%.
Increased Sales
• A well-used CRM system typically yields a direct sales revenue
increase of 10%-20%.
Customer Retention
• Improvement of Average Observed Customer benefit 10%-18% for
Customers That Formally Measured.
ROI Justification
• A 10% improvement in customer retention and increased
revenues and a 14% increase in customer satisfaction, though
small, can provide all the justification any company needs to
implement a CRM system. (Aberdeen Group 2003)
CRM Project Planning
CRM Innovation Management tm
1. Investigate Needs
• Define Successes
• Identify Gaps
Define Organizational / Customer Requirements
• Use Cases, Internal/External Processes
• Features, Functions and Technical
2. Create Ideas
• Business Case, CRM Plan
• Cost Justification, ROI
4. Evaluate Solutions
• Select based on Best Fit to Requirements
CRM Project Management
4. Activate Plans
• Prioritize - Scope
• Design - Review
• Install - Configure
• Pilot - Adjust
• Launch - Measure
• Support - Grow
CRM Best Practices /
Critical Success Factors
Customer-Centric Design
• Leverage Your Marketing Plan, Strategies and Segments.
• Based on Customer Value, Requirements and Related Processes.
Project Plan and Methodology
• Establish Prioritized and Firm Requirements, Scope, Team.
• Nuggets: Demonstrate credibility-building quick results first.
Top Management Sponsorship
• Secure On-going Figurehead, Vision, Communication, Commitment.
User Buy-in and Use
• Train, Fun, Communication, Enthusiasm, Motivation, Workshops, Support,
Recognition, Rewards, Punishment?
Track Key Metrics and Grow
• Increased / Decreased Sales, Costs, Profitability, Satisfaction $, %, #…
How well has CRM solved your current business problems and delivered
results?
Arts Organizations
CRM Case Studies
• The Royal Shakespeare Company: Needed first-rate data analysis of our
customer information and feedback to inform programming, pricing and virtually
every other aspect of their business. Wanted to create an organization that was
thoroughly customer informed. “We can now confidently predict that the use of
CRM is going to help us to achieve most of our business objectives. It shows
that we can all benefit: we will be more efficient and - because we will be better
informed - we can be bolder in our decision making. And it works at every level
from artistic planning decisions down to seating plans."
• Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh: Increased its email house file more than 50 %
in just 8 months. Now sends quarterly newsletters to members. The average
online gift is 16 % higher than offline gifts. Attendance is up for events that are
marketed & managed online.
• HoustonPBS: Raised more than $123,000 online via pledge drives in 14 months.
Has completed 33% of event registrations online. Used online communications
in the wake of eliminating roughly $150,000 annually in paper-based
communications. Just launched a “members only” area, offering a wide array of
services, which will help to grow loyalty.
Arts Group
CRM Issues & Examples
How can Arts organizations:
· Employ basic CRM strategies to get more out of
under-targeted / marketed contacts that languish on
mailing lists, or are used inconsistently at best?
• Intercept/E-/Surveys to discover and capture
contacts (demographics, past interactions, interests,
needs, behaviors, problems, aspirations…), desired
format and frequency of communications to segment
and increase marketing relevancy and value.
• Incentives, Opt-in Registrations, Subscriptions, E-
Newsletters, Auto-Responder “Courses”…
Arts Group
CRM Issues & Examples
How can Arts organizations:
· Use an upgraded CRM program to increase ROI on
the best customers/ heavier users?
• You MUST understand what your Customers THINK
and how they behave through continual question-
asking and capture it in your enhanced CRM
database to drive loyalty & evangelism marketing
communications and campaigns.
• Improved Customer E-/Surveying, Profiling,
Segmenting, Targeting, Communication, Interaction,
Conversion, Up-Sell/Cross-Sell, Loyalty, Viral E-Mail,
VIP Program, Evangelism.
Arts Group
CRM Issues & Examples
How can Arts organizations:
· Begin to think about solving problems and use a
CRM system for their users i.e. providing concierge
type services to incent attendance and make things
easier?
• Leverage The Experience Economy / Customer Experience
Management (CEM): Need to transform your value delivery to
constantly creating memorable and remarkable customer
experiences vs. “selling” art, tickets, admissions.
• Remove barriers to Non-attendance by E-/Surveying, recording
in your CRM database, partnering/extending your services
offering, and target Direct Mail/E-Mail/Web marketing.
• Save customers time. Think/Act like Amazon.com
Arts Group
CRM Issues & Examples
How can Arts organizations:
· Use a CRM program to quickly respond to
changing market realities?
• Down economic conditions, war and the growing
uncertainties require maximizing “mind-share”
with your constituents, getting them involved, and
increasing and sustaining your relevance.
• Create a community. Use marketing metaphors.
• Leverage E-/Surveys, E-Marketing/E-Mail, Web
Site, Communities, Blogs, Testimonials, Customer
Concern Management database, FAQs…
WHAT CRM Tactics Can We Do
Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively &
Get Results?
1. Define Your CRM Process, Requirements and Select a System that:
• Best Meets Your Current & Future Requirements.
• Delivers that Greatest Value to Your Customers - Ask Them
2. Implement and Leverage the CRM System:
• Based on your Marketing/Project Plan & Business Case.
• Define, Target, Personalize, Test, Manage, Measure, Tune
integrated Offline/Online Marketing Campaigns.
3. Develop & Segment Your Contact List / Database:
• Top 20%, Most Valuable / Best Potential Customers, Network
Hubs/Media, Influentials by Interests, Needs…
• Partner on “Fit” Lists, Marketing Campaigns etc.
• Make contacts aware of your Privacy & Data Protection Policy as
an initial E-Mail message & Campaign.
Arts Group
CRM Summary
A Customer and
Competitive Necessity
ASPIRE
Total Customer Development tm
The eCAPA Experience:
20 or under 1%
21-34 29%
35-44 31%
45-54 24%
55-64 12%
64+ 2%
Survey Respondent
Email Usage
• Business
– Several times a day (66%)
– Once a day (8%)
– N/A (21%)
– 2-3 times a week (3%)
– Once a week (2%)
• Personal
– Several times a day (52%)
– Once a Day (24%)
– 2-3 times a week (13%)
– Less than once a week (5%)
– N/A (4%)
Why do you delete
unread email?
• Not interested in subject line (67%)
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• Drives Ticket Sales Revenue
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• Decreases Marketing Costs
Conclusion:
• Strategy?
• Process?
• People?
• Technology?
• Planning?
• Implementation?
• Results?
• Other?
Follow-Up Questions?
Tim Sullivan
• Managing Consultant, ASPIRE - Total Customer Development
Consulting & Delivery (www.aspireto.com)
• CRM and Interactive Marketing Pioneer and Innovator with 15
Years of Experience. **(tim.p.sullivan@aspireto.com)
• Board Member, Customer Relationship Management
Association – CRMA-Chicago. (www.CRMA-Chicago.org)
**(773-252-4140)
Jim Hirsch
• Vice President and Executive Director, Chicago Theatre and
Chicago Association for the Performing Arts – CAPA.
• Other Relevant Credentials?
• (www.CAPA.com) (JHirsch@CAPA.com) (312-263-1138)
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